Xu Wen and Zhao Jin were waiting for tea at the door when a middle-aged man with a goatee came out. Xu Wen knew from the man's attire that he was a master.
"Mr. Zhao, why are you here? Our adults knew you were here and quickly asked me to come and take you into the city. Where are the madam and the two young ladies? Why are they not with you?"
The man obviously knew Zhao Jin. When he saw Zhao Jin, he hurried over and asked.
"Master Lu, I just came from Annan Fucheng. This is Xu Wenxu, a scholar, who is my good friend. My wife and the people who have fled from their village are waiting for me in front. I came to ask if we can go into the city to buy some food for the winter.
clothes, and some carriage carriages.”
Zhao Jin planned to buy more carriages, and the Xu family also wanted to buy a carriage, so he explained to Master Lu.
"Yes, yes, of course, you can go inside. If you need to buy something, please give me a list, and I will ask someone to take them to buy it in a while. It is guaranteed to be cheap and affordable, and the carriage will also buy it for you and pack it up. Please hurry up and buy it."
Come in, your Excellency is waiting for you at the county government office."
Zhao Jin asked Master Lu to leave a person waiting at the city gate, and he took several of the Zhao family's horses into the city. Xu Wen rode his horse and ran towards the place where they stopped to rest.
In the county office, Magistrate Lu was walking around anxiously. When he saw Zhao Jin walking in from the door, his old face immediately smiled like a wrinkled chrysanthemum.
"Hey, my second young master, are you okay? Mr. Zhao has sent me two letters asking me to look for you. I have never found any trace of you. Why did you suddenly lose news?"
As soon as Zhao Jin entered the county government office, his temperament immediately changed. He looked like an ordinary scholar before, but now he immediately looked like a young man from an aristocratic family.
"Uncle Lu, I asked you why your old face keeps changing. I'm fine. It's just that Qin'er had a fever in Nanyun County and was delayed for a few days. Later we drove all the way and met a friend of mine on the road.
There were more than 500 people in total, so I set out with them and encountered no danger along the way."
Zhao Jin sat on a chair, holding a teacup, and responded to Magistrate Lu's questions casually, and then urged Magistrate Lu to tell him about the current situation in other cities.
"Second Young Master, if you still want to go with your friends, you must quickly leave the boundaries of Annan City and go to Yuezhou. Zhu Kuina lost several cities in a row, and the 50,000 reinforcements sent by the imperial court plus
The original 120,000 border guards, a total of 170,000, have been lost. Nearly half of them have been lost. I have received news that Zhu Kui is now sending people everywhere to arrest people and exile them as soldiers. Now let me cooperate with the dispatch of officers to arrest those refugees.
The letter is already on the way."
When talking about business, Magistrate Lu returned to his serious look. After hearing the news, Zhao Jin's face turned dark.
When Old General Xiang was in the army, the Northern Barbarians were like a turtle huddled in its shell, not daring to invade Da Qi.
Now there are no tigers or monkeys in the mountains to call themselves kings, but everyone wants to take a bite of Daqi.
"You send a message to my elder brother. We discovered on the road that Hating, the youngest son of the Northern Barbarian Emperor, was trying to sneak into Daqi with his people. We couldn't find the other party's whereabouts. Let the capital city pay more attention. I will follow Xu
Big brother and the others are heading to Jiujiang."
After Zhao Jin finished speaking, he took out two letters and handed them to Magistrate Lu. After explaining the matter, he hurried out of the house, mounted his horse and headed to the city gate.
On the other side, Xu Wen and the others bought things in the city as quickly as possible, and asked the people left behind by Master Lu to notify Zhao Jin. They took the things out of the city gate first, and not long after they left, Zhao Jin and others drove
The carriage caught up with them.
"Brother Xu, let's leave as soon as we get back. There's an emergency at the border. Some people are arresting refugees everywhere and turning them into soldiers."
As soon as Zhao Jin caught up with Xu Wen, he quickly told him the news. After hearing this, Xu Wen cracked the whip of the bullock cart.
After a while, several people arrived at the resting place for the large troops. Xu Wen and Zhao Jin immediately went to find Xu Danian.
"Hiss, what, surrender to the army, no, let's leave quickly."
Xu Danian felt better after hearing the news. He had been infected with wind and cold in the past two days, and he was very sick every day and had no strength. Other matters in the village were left to Mr. Xu and others.
"Dang-dang-dang."
As soon as the village chief's gong struck, they knew something was going to happen. As usual, they quickly put the things they had untied in the car and waited for departure.
"Everyone, hurry up and get on your way. There is an emergency at the border. They want to arrest people and send them to the army. If they are caught, they will die."
Generally, those who were captured and sent to the army were regarded as vanguards. Except for the ignorant children, everyone else turned pale when they heard the village chief's words.
"Let's go, let's go quickly. If we get caught, it's over."
Mrs. Zhang has two sons and one grandson, all of whom are old enough to be arrested and sent to the military camp. After hearing the news, her face turned pale with fright.
The team hurriedly packed up their things and hit the road. No matter how cold or tired they were, it was still better than death.
"Why……"
Xu Yunjin sighed for the nth time today while sitting in the carriage. Xiao Xi'er fell asleep without realizing it. Xu Yunjin had no one to tease and was extremely bored.
"You girl, you don't know why you are sighing every day. Why are you not happy when you are asked to sit in the carriage and ignore the wind, sun and rain? Look at those people outside who are pushing the carriage with baskets on their backs.
Disaster victims who don’t have enough to eat or clothes to wear, what else are you dissatisfied with?”
After hearing Xu Yunjin sigh for the nth time, Mrs. Lin couldn't help but poked Xu Yunjin's forehead. This girl's temperament was neither like her father nor her, and she didn't know who she followed.
Look at the Yunmeng girl from the sister-in-law's family, Isatis from the Luo family, and Qin'er from the Zhao family. They all have gentle and quiet personalities. How come she is so naughty? However, the relationship between them is so close.
"Hehehehe, mother, aren't I bored? I thought we could walk slowly when we got to Annan Fucheng, and we wouldn't have to rush every day. But some bullshit general came to arrest people. I've been given all the trouble on the road in the past two days.
It turned into eight petals."
"Pfft."
Two snickers came from the carriage, and Xu Yunmeng and Luo Silan, who were sitting on the other side, couldn't hold back their laughter.
"Hahaha, second sister, no one has an eight-petal butt. I only have two. If there are people with eight-petal butts in the future, please let me go and check it out, okay? Hahaha."
Xu Yunzhao didn't care about his second sister's feelings and burst out laughing when he heard Xu Yunjin's words.
Xu Yunjin squinted his eyes and looked at Xu Yunzhao and said in a sinister tone:
"Well... little brother, please tell me again. I heard from my second brother that you haven't studied very seriously recently and haven't done your homework very well. I think it's time to give you some extra lessons so that you can feel the consequences of offending your second sister.
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Xu Yunzhao was so frightened that he trembled and said, "Hey, he doesn't want it. My eldest brother is too scary, and my sister is too scary."
Only he and Xiao Xi'er are the kindest people in their family, and he doesn't want his second brother to teach him how to read.
"No, no, don't let the second brother give me extra homework. The second brother is too terrible. Sister, sister, I was wrong. I will never make you angry again next time. Don't tell the second brother."
Seeing Xu Yunzhao acting coquettishly, several people in the car burst into laughter. Xu Yunjin pinched Xu Yunzhao's cheek, and then let go of his hand after seeing Xu Yunzhao groan in dissatisfaction.
Bursts of laughter came from the carriage, which made Xu Wen, who was driving the carriage beside him, feel less tired. He looked at his son, Xu Yunqing, who insisted on making a bullock cart with him, and asked with a smile:
"Ah Qing, what did you do to Ah Zhao? Why is this little monkey so afraid of you?"
Xu Wen was still a little curious. After all, his son knew it himself. When he was taught enlightenment, he was as naughty as a monkey.
When Xu Yunzhao was old enough to jump up and down with Xu Yunjin, he became distracted every time he studied.
The only things he was interested in might be boxing with Xu Yunjin and learning archery from Xu Wu, so when Xu Yunzhao said he wanted to go to the military camp, Xu Wen didn't stop him.
I just told him to study hard, and then he left the child to Xu Yunqing to teach him along the way. It seems that the results are good now.
"It's nothing, it's just that every time he doesn't finish his homework, he pricks his butt with my sister's needle. There should be about ten needle holes in his butt now."
Xu Yunqing didn't look at his father who looked curious, he flipped through a page of the book leisurely and answered Xu Wen's questions in a calm tone.